The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-28

help the big Philadelphia Fourth of July cele-
bration Mr. Clarke writes 1.-The longer live
abroad, the more / love my native country and
her people"
do You speak English9' he asked the alleged
Indian squaw at Niagara. Somewhat" she re-
piled. ''You can have them beaded hand bags
for So. or you can keep on walking down street"
w. L. TRENHOLM, United States Comptroller
of the Currency, is a tall, 1.-the man, with dark
eyes, gray hair and gray mustache. He is
pleasing conversationalist and has cordial and
attractive manners.
ONE Of the students at Vassar College is the
daughter of President Rockefeller, of the Stand
ard Oil Company. Her eyes are weak and she
carries on her studies by the help Of attend
ant, who reads to her.
Mr. THOMAS Cook, the organizer of Cooks
tours. has been total abstainer for fifty years,
declaring that in his numerous voyages in all
parts of the world he has been faithful to his
pledge. and has never suffered thereby.
The revisers of the Bible in Germany have
completed their last reading of Isaiah. Their
work does not attract much public interest, and
at q recent .plenary meeting" of the commission
at Cologne only eight persons were present.
THE wife of John Murray. Beaver Falls
BLACKSMITH whose luck was hard, learned to help
him at the FORGE and is good black
smith as he is. Murray was a classmate of John
Wilkes Booth and studied first for the Catholic
priesthood and then for the stage.
GENUINE feminine Inconsistency appears in
the following note left bya wife in New York
for her husband, from whom she had run away
with another MAE:
Dear WILL am going to better myself SO don't
worry. leave this city. Your wife,
love you just the No MORE.
THE rarity of lump of ice in a tenement
house suggests to a writer in New York news
paper that the flower mission should be followed
up at this stage of the season by an ice mission.
THE sweetest music ] ever heard" once ex-
claimed a convalescent fever patient twas the
jingle of the broken ice in the pitcher of water
that the nurse was bringing to my bedside"
WHEN President McCosh, of Princeton talks
he wants to walk around. When point is to be
impressed ne will pause moment in his stroll
the platform and turn his face full to the
audience, moving his head up and down to en-
phasize further his remarks. When he walks
fast the tones of his voice subsde, as if he we're
thinking what to say next and meanwhile talked
little things to fill in.
DANBURY, Conn, is rather fond of its ten
yearod girl ball-player; but her parents are not.
She is said to catch with perfect ease, grace and
accuracy the highest fly being captured
with Judgment She does not throw ever.
handed, like girls in general but puts it from
the shoulder in true style Her parents have
punished her in various ways for playing ball
on the street It does good her passion
for 1t amounts to a mania.
IT is said that even if revolution should sue
coed in Hawaii republican form of government
would not be imposed. Kalakaua would be sue
ceeded by his sister. the Princess young girl
twelve years of age, the idol Of the English resi-
dents. She is a daughter of Archie Cleehorn,
Scottish Australian: Her mother was the late
Likelike. sister of Kalakaua The English and
the Kipis, rebels, very anxious to place
the little girl on the throne.
A CORRESPONDENT who visited Mr.. Bancroft
the other day found him in his library
rounded oy eight type-writers, clicking away
fast as their fingers could go. Mr.. Bancroft
planned that he was having copied the papers
which he had borrowed from the widow of t he
late President Polk on his recent trip to Nash
vile. He brought home four large trunks full
of letters. comprising tho official and most of
the private correspondence of the Polk admin
istration a lot of records, memoranda and other
papers Of great historical value, which he is
reading. classifying and having copied by the
eight feet-fngered girls. He will write his
tory of the Polk administration, during which
he was Secretary of the Navy.